I have a flask app with the following directory structure:
- myapp/
- application.py
__init__.py
- models/
__init__.py
- user.py
The models use Flask-SQLAlchemy, and therefore, they need to have access to the db
object (a SQLAlchemy instance) from application.py
user.py:
import sys,os
sys.path.append('/path/to/application/package')
from testapp import db
class User(db.Model):
id = db.Column(db.Integer,primary_key=True)
username = db.Column(db.String(255),unique=True)
age = db.Column(db.Integer)
def __init__(self,username,age):
self.username = username
self.age = age
def __repr__(self):
return '<User %r>' % self.username
Because any of the models need access to the application's SQLAlchemy instance, the db
property, I have to throw this whole package on the path and then import from the main application module. For sanity's sake, I would like to keep the models in separate files. Will I need to put the path code on top of every model? Is there a better way? I'd rather not have the full path input like that, as they may be deployed to different hosts with different directory structures. Ideally there would be some way to internally handle the path so when it is used as another user via mod_wsgi
I don't have to manually change the code.